Following his January 19 extradition to the United States, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman Loera was arraigned on a 17-count “superseding indictment” the following day in federal court in Brooklyn, New York.

Zia Zafar, the 31-year-old man charged with the attempted murder of a U.S. consular official in Guadalajara on January 6, will remain in jail pending trial, a federal judge in Virginia ruled last week.

When musician Catherine John arrived in Cuernavaca from San Francisco in 2008, she could hardly have imagined that her subsequent journey would lead eight years later to the release of ¡Fandango Bragh!, a fusion album she describes as an expression of her “unique Irish-Mexican identity.”

Both Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Foreign Secretary Claudia Ruiz Massieu will travel to Cuba this weekend to attend the funeral of Fidel Castro, the leader of the Cuban Revolution who died November 25 at the age of 90.

It’s a sad truth that when Mexico chooses a leader, few Americans could care less which party they belong to, what political viewpoints they represent or how this might impact their lives.

Just prior to the U.S. presidential election, Agustín Carstens, the respected governor of Mexico’s central bank, had warned that victory for Donald Trump would be akin to a “hurricane” for this country’s economy.